Its all Japan today:

  • 2330GMT National CPI y/y for September, expected is 0.9%, prior was 0.9%
  • 2330GMT National CPI y/y excluding Fresh Food for September, expected is 0.7%, prior was 0.8%
  • 2330GMT National CPI excluding Food, Energy y/y for September, expected is -0.0% (flat), prior was -0.1%
  • 2330GMT Tokyo CPI y/y for October, expected is 0.5%, prior was 0.5%
  • 2330GMT Tokyo CPI excluding Fresh Food y/y for October, expected is 0.3%, prior was 0.2%
  • 2330GMT Tokyo CPI excluding Food, Energy y/y for October, expected is -0.3%, prior was -0.3%

The inflation numbers have been moving (slowly) in the desired direction for Abe and the BOJ over past months, but deflation is still lurking. Note that the ‘national’ inflation data is for September, while the data for Tokyo is available more quickly and thus we get October data for the capital.